- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/867/L8
- Title:
- Gaia kinematic data of runaway & field OB stars in SMC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/867/L8
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use Gaia Data Release 2 proper motions of field OB stars from the Runaways and Isolated O-Type Star Spectroscopic Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) to study the kinematics of runaway stars. The data reveal that the SMC Wing has a systemic peculiar motion relative to the SMC Bar of (v_{alpha}_,v_{delta}_)=(62+/-7,-18+/-5)km/s and relative radial velocity +4.5+/-5.0km/s. This unambiguously demonstrates that these two regions are kinematically distinct: the Wing is moving away from the Bar, and towards the Large Magellanic Cloud with a 3D velocity of 64+/-10km/s. This is consistent with models for a recent, direct collision between the Clouds. We present transverse velocity distributions for our field OB stars, confirming that unbound runaways comprise on the order of half our sample, possibly more. Using eclipsing binaries and double-lined spectroscopic binaries as tracers of dynamically ejected runaways, and high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) as tracers of runaways accelerated by supernova kicks, we find significant contributions from both populations. The data suggest that HMXBs have lower velocity dispersion relative to dynamically ejected binaries, consistent with the former group corresponding to less energetic supernova kicks that failed to unbind the components. Evidence suggests that our fast runaways are dominated by dynamical, rather than supernova, ejections.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/562/A69
- Title:
- GSH 305+01-24 stellar content
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/562/A69
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The distribution of OB stars along with that of H{alpha}, ^12^CO, dust infrared emission, and neutral hydrogen is carried out in order to provide a more complete picture of interactions of the young massive stars and the observed supershell GSH 305+01-24. The studied field is located between 299{deg}<= l<= 311{deg} and -5{deg}<=b<=7{deg}. The investigation is based on nearly 700 O-B9 stars with uvby{beta} photometry currently available. The derived stellar physical parameters were used to establish a homogeneous scale for the distances and extinction of light for major apparent groups and layers of foreground and background stars in Centaurus and study the interaction with the surrounding interstellar medium. The distance to the entire Centaurus star-forming complex is revised and a maximum of the OB-star distance distribution is found at 1.8+/-0.4 (r.m.s) kpc. The massive star component of GSH 305+01-24 is identified at about 85-90% completeness up to 11.5-12mag. The projected coincidence of the OB stars with the shell and the similarities between the shell's morphology and the OB-star distribution indicate a strong interaction of the stellar winds with the superbubble material. We demonstrate that these stars contribute a sufficient wind injection energy in order to explain the observed size and expansion velocity of the supershell. The derived stellar ages suggest an age gradient over the Coalsack Loop. A continuous star-formation might be taking place within the shell with the youngest stars located at its periphery and the open cluster NGC 4755 being the oldest. A layer of very young stars at 1kpc is detected and its connection to both GSH 305+01-24 and the foreground GSH 304-00-12 HI shells is investigated.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/727/46
- Title:
- Highly ionized plasmas in the Milky Way
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/727/46
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The cooling transition temperature gas in the interstellar medium (ISM), traced by the high ions, SiIV, CIV, NV, and OVI, helps to constrain the flow of energy from the hot ISM with T>10^6^K to the warm ISM with T<2x10^4^K. We investigate the properties of this gas along the lines of sight to 38 stars in the Milky Way disk using 1.5-2.7km/s resolution spectra of SiIV, CIV, and NV absorption from the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, and 15km/s resolution spectra of OVI absorption from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer. The absorption by SiIV and CIV exhibits broad and narrow components while only broad components are seen in NV and OVI. The narrow components imply gas with T<7x10^4^K and trace two distinct types of gas.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/493/2339
- Title:
- Internal motions in OB-associations
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/493/2339
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the motions inside 28 OB-associations with the use of Gaia DR2 proper motions. The average velocity dispersion calculated for 28 OB-associations including more than 20 stars with Gaia DR2 proper motion is sigma_v_=4.5km/s. The median virial and stellar masses of OB-associations are 8.9x10^5^ and 8.1x10^3^M_{sun}_, respectively. The median star-formation efficiency in parent giant molecular clouds appears to be epsilon=1.2%. Gaia DR2 proper motions confirm the expansion in the Per OB1, Car OB1 and Sgr OB1 associations found earlier with Gaia DR1 data. We also detect the expansion in Gem OB1, Ori OB1 and Sco OB1 associations which became possible for the first time now when analyzed with Gaia DR2 proper motions. The analysis of the distribution of OB-stars in the Per OB1 association shows the presence of a shell-like structure with the radius of 40 pc. Probably, the expansion of the Per OB1 association started with the velocity greater than the present-day expansion velocity equal to 5.0+/-1.7km/s.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/BaltA/11/1
- Title:
- Interstellar extinction curves of OB stars
- Short Name:
- J/BaltA/11/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The paper presents a collection of 436 extinction curves covering the whole available range of wavelengths from satellite UV to near-IR. The data were taken from the ANS photometric catalogue (Cat. <II/97>) and from the compilations of IR photometric measurements. The data curves have been obtained with the aid of "artificial standards" Papaj et al. (1993A&A...273..575P) and Wegner (1994MNRAS.270..229W, 1995, Interstellar Absorption Structures in the Direction of Nearby OB stars, Wyd. Uczelniane WSP, Bydgoszcz, p. 1-383). The visual magnitudes and spectral classifications of O and B type stars with E_B-V_>=0.05 were taken from the SIMBAD database. The curves are given in the form of plots and tables E_{lambda}-V_/E_B-V_ versus 1/{lambda}. The observed variety of extinction laws among slightly reddened stars is apparently due to the various physical parameters of interstellar clouds.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/201
- Title:
- IR properties of stellar bowshock nebulae
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/154/201
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Arcuate infrared nebulae are ubiquitous throughout the Galactic Plane and are candidates for partial shells, bubbles, or bowshocks produced by massive runaway stars. We tabulate infrared photometry for 709 such objects using images from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Explorer, and the Herschel Space Observatory (HSO). Of the 709 objects identified at 24 or 22 {mu}m, 422 are detected at the HSO 70 {mu}m bandpass. Of these, only 39 are detected at HSO 160 {mu}m. The 70 {mu}m peak surface brightnesses are 0.5-2.5 Jyr/arcmin^2^. Color temperatures calculated from the 24 to 70 {mu}m ratios range from 80 to 400 K. Color temperatures from 70 to 160 {mu}m ratios are systematically lower, 40-200 K. Both of these temperature are, on average, 75% higher than the nominal temperatures derived by assuming that dust is in steady-state radiative equilibrium. This may be evidence of stellar wind bowshocks sweeping up and heating-possibly fragmenting but not destroying-interstellar dust. Infrared luminosity correlates with standoff distance, R_0_, as predicted by published hydrodynamical models. Infrared spectral energy distributions are consistent with interstellar dust exposed to either single radiant energy density, U=10^3^-10^5^ (in more than half of the objects) or a range of radiant energy densities U_min_=25 to U_max_=10^3^-10^5^ times the mean interstellar value for the remainder. Hence, the central OB stars dominate the energetics, making these enticing laboratories for testing dust models in constrained radiation environments. The spectral energy densities are consistent with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon fractions q_PAH_~<1% in most objects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/160/115
- Title:
- JHK observation of 75 OB stars in Cyg OB2
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/160/115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results of a high angular resolution survey of massive OB stars in the Cygnus OB2 association that we conducted with the Near-Infrared Imager camera and ALTAIR adaptive optics system of the Gemini North telescope. We observed 74 O- and early-B-type stars in Cyg OB2 in the JHK infrared bands in order to detect binary and multiple companions. The observations are sensitive to equal-brightness pairs at separations as small as 0.08", and progressively fainter companions are detectable out to {Delta}K=9mag at a separation of 2". This faint contrast limit due to read noise continues out to 10" near the edge of the detector. We assigned a simple probability of chance alignment to each companion based upon its separation and magnitude difference from the central target star and upon areal star counts for the general star field of Cyg OB2. Companion stars with a field membership probability of less than 1% are assumed to be physical companions. This assessment indicates that 47% of the targets have at least one resolved companion that is probably gravitationally bound. Including known spectroscopic binaries, our sample includes 27 binary, 12 triple, and 9 systems with 4 or more components. These results confirm studies of high-mass stars in other environments that find that massive stars are born with a high-multiplicity fraction. The results are important for the placement of the stars in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, the interpretation of their spectroscopic analyses, and for future mass determinations through measurement of orbital motion.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/ApSS/365.112
- Title:
- Kinematic data for high luminosity stars
- Short Name:
- J/other/ApSS/365
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We calculated the median parallaxes for 47 OB associations including at least 10 stars with known Gaia DR2 parallaxes. A comparison between trigonometric and photometric parallaxes of OB associations reveals a zero-point offset of {Delta}_{pi}_=-0.11+/-0.04mas indicating that Gaia DR2 parallaxes are, on average, underestimated and the distances derived from them are overestimated. The correction of {Delta}_{pi}=-0.11 mas is consistent with the estimate that Arenou et al. (2018A&A...616A..17A) obtained for bright stars. An analysis of parallaxes of OB associations and high-luminosity field stars confirms our previous conclusion (Dambis et al., 2001AstL...27...58D) that the distance scale for OB stars established by Blaha and Humphreys (1989AJ.....98.1598B) must be reduced by 10-20%. Spurious systematic motions of 10-20km/s at the distances of 2-3kpc from the Sun are found to arise from the use of the uncorrected Gaia DR2 parallaxes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/V/31A
- Title:
- Kinematic data for O-B5 stars
- Short Name:
- V/31A
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This document describes the magnetic tape version of a catalog of 1440 O-B5 star with radial velocities accurate to within 5 km/sec, located within 3 kpc of the sun and within 10 degrees of the galactic equator. Radial velocities, luminosities and spectral classifications have been included from the literature; proper motions have been compiled for 898 of the stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/472/3887
- Title:
- Kinematic data for stars in OB-associations
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/472/3887
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We use stellar proper motions from the catalog TGAS (2016, Cat. I/337) to study the kinematics of OB-associations identified by Blaha and Humphreys (1989AJ.....98.1598B). The TGAS proper motions of OB-associations generally agree well with the Hipparcos proper motions. The parameters of the Galactic rotation curve obtained with TGAS and Hipparcos proper motions agree within the errors. The average internal velocity dispersion calculated for 18 OB-associations with more than 10 TGAS stars is sigma_v_=3.9km/s, which is considerably smaller, by a factor of 0.4, than the velocity dispersions derived from Hipparcos data. The effective contribution from binary OB-stars into the velocity dispersion sigma_v inside OB-associations is sigma_b_=1.2km/s. The median virial and stellar masses of OB-associations are equal to 7.1x10^5^ and 9.0x10^3^M_{sun}_, respectively. Thus OB-associations must be unbound objects provided they do not include a lot of dense gas. The median star-formation efficiency is epsilon=2.1%. Nearly one third of stars of OB-associations must lie outside their tidal radius. We found that the Per OB1 and Car OB1 associations are expanding with the expansion started in a small region of 11-27pc 7-10Myr ago. The average expansion velocity is 6.3km/s.
